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...means of theses and general examinations, have the opportunity to show how well they have digested, and how maturely they can employ, the facts acquired from their first three years' study in twelve or thirteen separate courses. If Phi Beta Kappa should join the University in withholding its judgment of students until as much evidence as possible is available, it would complete its century-long growth away from college social club to honorary society. It would be recognizing officially what has long been the situation at Harvard: that the nature of Phi Beta Kappa does not permit it to compete...
...September at a "Memorandum of Progress" which the Advisory Council published in July 1930 intimating that a Federal department would be disapproved. Dr. Cattell called secretary Wilbur and President Suzzallo creatures of "private philantropic trusts." He sent out a questionnaire to pedagogs. whose answers purported to be a "damning judgment" of the Advisory Council and its sponsors...
...always is it necessary to prove defamation of survivors. Recorded cases are scarce, but one well-remembered is the conviction of one Paul R. Haffer of Tacoma for an article which allegedly libeled the memory of George Washington. The Supreme Court of the State of Washington upheld the judgment, opining in substance: Though there were no living survivors to be injured by publication, still memory is conceived to be memory existing in the minds of the living, whether or not that memory rests on knowledge of the deceased as a living man or on historical knowledge...
...radio broadcaster as well as a sports writer can always be constrained by decency and courtesy, even if he must make mistakes in description and judgment, and to plead service to the public as any excuse for thoughtlessness or careless use of undeservedly offensive epithets is adding ignorance to bad taste. Neither newspaper nor radio is bound to serve the public to the point of boorishness...
Comprehension of underlying ideas and criticism of facts is clearly more important in education than is an undigested mass of information, even when it is that information which for Boston tradition constitutes culture. Essay questions demanding some reasoning and judgment on examinations undoubtedly foster the more mature and intelligent type of study which leads to real understanding and ability to criticize. It is in fields such as the fine arts and modern languages that the advantages of really "general" examinations are greatest. But the introduction of the speculative type of question on divisionals in all fields would be a distinct...